The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Chapter 7 Public Intelligence and the Citizen Extract III

[In combination with free OpenBTS mobile telephony for the five billion poor] I see cities, countries, nations, regions recognizing that the relatively minor cost of a call center is well worth its benefits–capable of all necessary languages and able to handle the load of calls with a mix of centralized and distributed participants, some paid, most volunteers. This then becomes the lever that will move the community or nation out of poverty and into a position where the distributed intelligence of the community or nation is able to create infinite wealth while also achieving a sustainable peace.

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The essence of this manifesto is found in the proven fact that transparency and truth foster trust, and trust lowers the cost of doing business. The industrial era carried the information pathologies to extremes and enabled corruption at the highest levels, using secrecy to avoid accountability.

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Empowered by open software, hardware, spectrum, data access, and intelligence, we are within reach of open democracy.